I liked the discussion we had in class and the one Jonathan Nguyen posted about as well but I do not want to take away from the direction either was heading or get them off track. If USC Marshall could partner with other schools with similar prestige who have specific renowned programs and allow Marshall students to study for a year at that school getting specific Core classes. The rules would have to be strict and USC could offer to NYU students for example, an opportunity to take courses in the Business Cinematic arts program allowing students to study business in cinema in the heart of the industry. In return Marshall students could spend a year studying at NYU Stern school of business in finance and be open to a completely new network of internship opportunities. Another possibility is with MIT and allow students who want to get into operations management or production. All GE classes and most required courses would be completed during their three years at USC but with one year at another prestigious university would open a fantastic networking opportunity as well as with students from those universities coming here for a year could potentially improve the Trojan network in a way when those students see how close this university is with its alumni.

A program that gives students interested in pursuing a career in the non profit sector, specifically founding a nonprofit, an opportunity to do so while in college is something Marshall should consider. By partnering with the USC Price School of Public Policy, students admitted into this program would learn the foundations of business and non profit management simultaneously while taking meaningful steps toward starting non profits of their own with the help of a faculty advisor. My vision is students admitted into the program will be placed in small cohorts of 25-30 students during their freshman year and will remain in this group throughout their time at USC. During their freshman year, they will begin with the basics of starting a not for profit business (an idea that they're passionate about, a name, a business plan, etc.) and continue developing it throughout their college career. At some point during their junior or senior year, students will have the opportunity to spend a semester gathering real life experience in creating their organizations. Students who wish to use that time to travel abroad to research the population that their nonprofit would serve would be allowed to do so as part of their program (example: a student is passionate about starting an organization that builds baseball fields in Africa. That student during his/her junior/senior year would be allowed to spend the 6 months in Africa with an advisor). At the end of the 4 years, each student in the cohort will have started a non profit organization made possible through experiential and traditional learning methods.

We kind of touched base with this concept in class but many students have troubles with choosing a school to attend already during their senior year of high school. Not only that, many students decide to stay local or at least somewhat local, for example, I was born and raised in Orange County but here I am at a school in Los Angeles. What I want to propose is the idea that for the business school, we can do kind of like a track program where if you want to look into say, business law, you can do a year here at USC, one at a university close to Sacremento, and another year at Washington D.C. before you go back to USC to complete your degree and that way you would have exposure to multiple university campuses as well as exposure to the country that we live in. Some kind of track program that lets you study at schools all throughout the States because many students don't have the option or ability to see the full extent of what the United States has to offer and it'd be cool to have a program that promotes such travel and thinking as well. Perhaps a business finance track where you would study up in New York for a bit, and so forth.

Business schools give you the tools you need in order to understand the inner workings of the corporate world. They claim to show you how to become successful and then leave it up to you to get an internship and discover how things combine together in a corporation. When most people aspire to have a business degree they aspire to own the expensive suits, the expense cars, the penthouse suites - all with the upper class lifestyle of investment and using accounting methods to pay the minimum in taxes. In order to achieve these luxuries one would have to be extremely business savvy and learn how to play "the game." My suggestion would be to offer a course plan/business degree that would bypass the general education program in order to be on the fast track to a business degree. An individual would take all the required business classes for three years and then during their last year they would spend their time abroad in either New York City, Tokyo Japan, or Sydney Australia in order to learn the stock market trade and meet business contacts to improve networking. In order to do this, there would need to be a network of mentors so that each student will have an individual mentor. In order to keep this degree/course plan exclusive I would suggest that a limited amount of students be allowed to enter the program.